We recall a character reveal for the latest Super Smash Bros. titles last year that caused some confusion, as a brief appearance of Chrom and a dodgy live feed made some - including this writer - mistake him for a 'new challenger'. He wasn't of course, but was rather just part of Robin's Final Smash move - one of the lead characters from the brilliant Fire Emblem: Awakening was limited to a brief cameo.

Modders often fill gaps left by Nintendo, of course, and it seems one such clever person has taken assets for the character and dropped them into Super Smash Bros. Brawl with Marth's move-set, which is entirely logical. Thus fan dreams are fulfilled, though sadly there doesn't appear to be a costume variation of him wearing nothing but his rather tight-fitting swimming trunks as per in Awakening; for now Shulk's still the only male brawler to show off his abs and impeccably waxed chest.

Those distractions aside, you can see this mod in action below; don't forget to switch the quality to 720p60FPS for the best effect.

I'm still hoping he'll eventually become playable in one way or another in Smash 4 :/Even a DLC skin for Ike would be pretty damn awesome imo. (seeing -and hearing- Chrom "as Marth" is kinda painful btw)

Cool, but eh. Chrom is the most forgettable and boring lord in the entire series (even more so than Eliwood).Nothing about him stands out, aside from having access to an awesome version of Master Lord class, which SHOULD HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE TO DLC ROY, EIRIKA, AND EPHRAIM.sigh, for a game that's supposed to be the "All-Stars" game for the series and sell almost entirely on fan service (would've been the final game if it didn't sell well), they managed to get so many things wrong.

@AVahne EhhhhWhether or not he's more forgettable than Marth is kinda debatable. I've heard more people say that Marth is more forgettable, although I personally liked Marth a lot more than Chrom. But yeah, it kinda sucks that they chose to do Chrom of all characters, although if my favorite lord was in instead...well that would look kinda ridiculous. You can probably guess who it is from that.

@Ducked He doesn't really have anything unique to stand out among the other swordsmen, and we already have a few reps from Fire Emblem. Would kinda be a pointless decision. Robin was a much better choice, since we hadn't seen a Mage represented in Smash Bros. yet. This isn't even mentioning that Chrom is basically the most boring and forgettable Lord, although I suppose that's not as important.

@L8TPersonally, even if he doesn't have supports or base conversations to develop him, I think Marth is a much better character than Chrom. He has more accomplishments, faced bigger threats, and dealt with more hardships than Chrom. I'm not entirely sure if I could figure out who your favorite lord is. The only character I think would look ridiculous in Smash Bros. would be Elincia, but I'm not even sure if she counts as a lord.

@L8T My one issue with putting Robin in the game is that everyone's Robin is different (mine isn't even named Robin). I would have rather had Tharja or Rickon, if we're trying to fill a mage-ish slot (or another set character, if one of them isn't your bag). But, I suppose neither of them is quite as popular as the player character. Still, it's the same issue I have with Villager. No win situation, I guess.

@DuckedAdding him would be a bit of work for the dev team and Sakurai though. Even if they made minimal changes to make him less cloney, they still have to spend many hours balancing him out and making sure he plays fine. Not to mention all the animation work, rigging, bug checking, and whatnot just to add a single character. It's a lot of work just for a pretty unnecessary character.And interesting opinion. Personally I think that Chrom cannot hold even a single candle wick to Ike, but that's just me.

@AVahne The one I was thinking of was actually Sigurd. I'd love to see him in Smash Bros., but there's the minor problem of the fact that he's always riding a horse, and never gets off of it in game, since he starts off in that class, and the dismount command was removed for some reason. It would be kinda ridiculous if he was riding a horse, so I suppose the closest character we can get it Seliph, although at this point there's not really much unique they can do with either of them.

@Captain_GonruHm, considering they only seem to want to put main characters (more recognizable than sub characters), the only other mages who would fit in Robin's slot are Micaiah and maybe Celica. Sanaki could also be considered, but that'd be stretching things.

He still looks too much like Marth (well, he is Marth's direct descendent) that I have to wonder why they even bothered with this.

On another note, I love how Sakurai basically used Palutena's Guidance with Robin as a hilarious in-game response to the fans as to why Robin was selected to be a playable character rather than Chrom.

@AVahne Well, they could've made Chrom the Marth clone instead of Lucina, but Lucina was the better choice to get another woman into the game rather than another guy who already looks pretty similar to Marth anyway.

@L8TWell, even though he was a Knight Lord and thus rode on a horse whenever he was playable, it'd be weird if he couldn't fight unmounted. So I don't think he'd be that weird of an addition. Sadly we'll likely never see him added, but at least one of Ike's alternate colors pretty much emulates him.

@BulbasaurusRex
Maybe, but like you said, they probably wanted to get more women in the game. Besides that, I think Lucina was considered the more popular character, so she was chosen over her lord daddy.
Besides, she's also the only other lord in the series to have some kind of father still alive by the end of the game (even though technically HER father is dead, but at least she still has alternate universe father). The only other lord with this status is Roy, whose also the lord with the biggest harem XD

@Captain_Gonru I honestly do see where you're coming from with that. In fact, I thought something along the same lines when I heard Robin was announced, and I wasn't expecting him to be in for the same reason. For a mage character, though, I think Alvis would be a good fit. Not only is he a mage, but he would also be a good villain representative, since Fire Emblem doesn't have one of those in Smash Bros. Although, he hasn't been in a game for years and therefore basically has no chance, and even if he did the only way he would get in is if Sigurd or Seliph was.

Model swaps on their own really aren't that impressive anymore. Would have been impressive a couple years ago, but that train has sailed.People are doing WAY more advanced things with Brawl now. I mean look at Project M, which hacks Brawl into AN ENTIRELY NEW GAME.

@outburst I'd much rather have Boyd playable, more characters from Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn please! Also, those 2 games released in some way (e.g. VC, HD/3D remaster) so everyone can experience them without spending like £200.

Can't remember where I saw it (might be a dream) but Sakai wanted both chrom and Lucina but seeing as they both fight like Marth (according to lore) he decided to opt for just Lucina since there are no female sword users.

Ike was boring?!? He's arguably had the deepest character development of any FE main character. Ike had a pretty intriguing coming of age story from new recruit>mercenary commander>general. Chrom may have the respect of the Shepherds but Ike earned respect among the Greil Mercenaries, nobles, generals, laguz and soldiers from every country of his entire continent. I like Chrom but he's a cookie cutter FE lord. Ike wields a better sword, better animated Aether, and battled a god. Noone touches him

Ohhh. I thought it was a PSA. Well, this is still pretty neat anyhow! I haven't gotten into Brawl customs for quite some time now (transporting files and stuff was always time-consuming). Perhaps I'll get into it again someday.